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                                 SENATE BILL 6071

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

 

By Senators von Reichbauer, Pelz and Johnson

 

Read first time 01/14/92.  Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance.Permitting certain transactions by insurance agent-brokers.


     AN ACT Relating to permitted transactions by insurance agent‑brokers; and amending RCW 48.17.270.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 48.17.270 and 1981 c 339 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

     A licensed agent may be licensed as a broker and be a broker as to insurers for which he or she is not then appointed as agent.  A licensed broker may be licensed as and be an agent as to insurers appointing him or her as agent.  The sole relationship between a broker and an insurer as to which he or she is appointed as an agent shall, as to transactions arising during the existence of such agency appointment, be that of insurer and agent, except that the appointed agent-broker may complete a transaction on a brokerage basis if the transaction is not permitted under the agreement appointing the agent.